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HOPEFULS who have been brushing up their CVs for the job of running the Law Society may be in for a disappointment. Despite a flurry of speculation last week, it looks as if Janet Paraskeva, the present chief executive, is “doing a Lord Woolf” and postponing her retirement until the reforms — splitting the society’s regulatory and trade union arms — are well on the way. She had indicated that she might go this autumn, which seemed likely given that the changes could see her job abolished in its present form. But Law Diary